From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j412DeO03342 for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2005 22:13:40 -0400 Received: from bedevere.spamaps.org (ip-65-77-168-70-muca.aerosurf.net [65.77.168.70]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j412Ddnv004124 for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2005 22:13:39 -0400 Received: from [172.16.128.10] (helo=[172.16.128.10]) by bedevere.spamaps.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DS3xi-0002J5-00 for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2005 19:13:38 -0700 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] swap on LVM From: Clint Byrum In-Reply-To: <20050430154315.GB806@bobby.schwinge.homeip.net> References: <4270E3C4.1090408@nextra.ro> <4270ED4E.8090500@mikebabcock.ca> <20050430154315.GB806@bobby.schwinge.homeip.net> Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 19:13:48 -0700 Message-Id: <1114913629.10456.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: LVM general discussion and development On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 17:43 +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 10:03:36AM -0400, Michael T. Babcock wrote: > I can't confirm that, as I've been using swap partitions on LVs on > several systems with both LVM1 and LVM2 for some years without problems. > I also have used swap on LVM for over a year. The only problem I've ever had was with LVM1 not allowing me to swapoff any lvm-based swap partitions. For that reason, on lvm1 boxes I make a big ext2 partition and put a swap file on that. Slightly lower performance.. but I don't mind. For me swap on servers is just there to prevent the box from OOM killing stuff before I can get on and shut things down gracefully.